NBC: Cecil Beaton, who was already a successful Vogue photographer at the time, happened to notice portraits of the daughters of Marie-Laure de Noailles that Blumenfeld had made, and asked to see his other works. Impressed by Blumenfeld's talent, he introduced him to Michel de Brunhoff, Editor In Chief at Vogue Paris, who gave him his first commissions. In his correspondence, Beaton finds Blumenfeld far to gifted artistically for fashion photography and atrociously ugly! They remained lifelong friends…
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